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Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

Mapping a Chinese Revolution, one century on

One hundred years ago today, China kick-started a rebellion which overthrew centuries of imperial rule, stripping the young emperor and regent of power. Ecstatic revolutionaries did away with the reviled pigtails mandated by the Manchu rulers and decried...

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

Cambodia – Open Position for a Land Registration / Cadastral Expert

FINNMAP's Legal Expert Dr Jukka Pekka Tolvanen was awarded the Royal Order medal of Officer at the medal awarding ceremony at the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction (MLMUPC) on 24 August 2011.

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

Armenia’s Real Estate and Cadastre

Bako Sahakyan, President of the Artsakh Republic (Nagorno-Karabakh) met Yervand Zakharyan, Chairman of the Real Estate and Cadastre State Committee at Armenia’s government on Monday. According to a press release by the Karabakhi presidential administration, issues related to...

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

Viet Nam’s Fishing Forecasts Inaccurate – and late

Viet Nam's fisheries forecasting was both inadequate and inaccurate, heard a meeting organised by the General Fisheries Department earlier this week. Information provided quarterly by the Fisheries Research Institute to help fishermen know where, what and how much...

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

Prospects of 3D Cadastre in Nepal

The system of registering the features in the third dimension, especially for the registration of stratified real property in the descriptive form, was familiar in the past, though the system was not conceptualized in view of 3D...

Sunday, October 9th, 2011

3D Cadastre in Singapore

Property rights have always been shown in 2D with the surface parcel being the fundamental representation of ownership. Complex 3D situations, interlocking properties, multi-levelled train station, underground rock caverns are all immediate but unresolved challenges for us...

Sunday, October 9th, 2011

Azerbaijan to Launch Aerogeodetic Center

The State Aerogeodetic Center will soon open in Azerbaijan in the near future, Azerbaijani State Committee for Land and Cartography Chairman Garib Mammadov said today. The center will receive information from 37 satellite geodetic stations of the country...

Friday, October 7th, 2011

Land Law ‘incomplete’ Without Urban Planning

A new land law being prepared by the government is welcome but Macau’s land management system will not be complete without the revision of the urban planning law, warned legislator Gabriel Tong Io Cheng.The public consultation period...

Friday, October 7th, 2011

Airborne Geophysical Survey Data Sets Released in NZ

All data from Glass Earth Gold’s aerial geophysical survey of Otago has now been fully released so the scientific community and general public can benefit from the rich information found in the $5 million project, Glass Earth...

Friday, October 7th, 2011

New Esri Basemap Highlights Thematic Content

Esri released a new global basemap service designed to highlight your data. The Light Gray Canvas map is now available at arcgis.com and ArcGIS Explorer Online. The Light Gray Canvas map features an overall soft gray color for...